• Works mostly well and integrates well with Jellyfin.
  
• Must remember to set the max bandwidth to a high value. Auto sometimes causes transcoding.
  
• Problem: Subtitles Constantly delayed by 1s or so. No place to adjust timing in the player.
  
• Problem: Seeking forward or backwards causes the subtitles to get really out of sync. I read a plausible explanation online about how remuxing would always cause this, but sometimes it works. This is related to the fact that Exoplayer does not support MKV containers directly.
  
• Workaround: Convert all a/v/s from MKV containers into separate mp4/srt files? This would be a bit annoying.
  

• Works mostly well and integrates with jellyfin.
  
• Problem: Has a super annoying "micro stutter" problem when subtitles are displayed. Does not happen on all media, but it does on most of the media I have. It's annoying enough to be unusable.
  

• Supports most A/V formats without problems.
  
• Supports MKVs (no remuxing!)
  
• Configurable streaming buffer size. Shows buffer levels. Good for debugging.
  
• Problem: No configuration option to turn on subtitles by default. Requires user to turn it on every time.
  
• Problem: Does not support external (srt) subtitles. A workaround is to embed all srt subtitles into MKV files.
  
• Problem: Under some conditions, will stutter weirdly (as if missing frames), even when the buffer is full. Once it starts to stutter, the only solution is to stop the playback and hit play again. It will lose the position, forcing a lot of manual re-positioning. This is frustrating enough to make me give it up.
  
• It's a solid player, and would be perfect if those bugs were fixed (I'll report them to the author).
  

• Very complete player. Plays basically anything without transcoding or remuxing.
  
• Lots of features. In fact it has so many features it becomes confusing.
  
• Problem: Codec issues. I had to download EAC3 codecs from some questionable sites to make it work.
  
• Problem: It appears that the player was purchased by another company and now there's a "frozen" version kept by volunteers and an "official" version? This is not ideal.
  
• Problem: Despite all the options, basic things are sometimes hard to do (like turning subtitles on/off or selecting the language).
  

(2024-03-06, 10:32 PM)baratazana Wrote: Exoplayer

• Problem: Subtitles Constantly delayed by 1s or so. No place to adjust timing in the player.
  
• Problem: Seeking forward or backwards causes the subtitles to get really out of sync. I read a plausible explanation online about how remuxing would always cause this, but sometimes it works. This is related to the fact that Exoplayer does not support MKV containers directly.
  

Quote:Currently, I use MX Player since it's the only one that doesn't stutter or does weird things to subtitles in any form. It's a bit quirky and its history makes me hope it won't one day suddenly disappear from the Play Store (and my device).

Quote:I also heard of using Kodi as a player for videos, but I haven't investigated into that.

So that's it. What are you folks using as a player? I really would like something that would work in an easy and integrated way, without hiccups. Basically something anyone can come and just press play to watch movies and series.

Quote:More or less known. Look at this and this.

Quote:If you want to try another external player, Just (Video) Player is pretty light, free, open-source, ExoPlayer-based, supports a ton of formats and is in the Play Store. I can't remember what its subtitle-via-Jellyfin support is like (if I were to guess, I would say non-existent), but the ultimate reason I don't use any external player is because, understandably, they're not aware of Jellyfin and they can't report playback progress back to your JF server.

Quote:Kodi is the only application I keep on my Google TV box to play stuff from Jellyfin. When it comes to playback, I am completely satisfied with it. I don't play 4K content, so I can't speak to that, but I have had no problems playing back 1080p AV1, H.264 and H.265 video with E-AC-3, and AAC and AC3 audio on my onn. box (2023). Subtitles display perfectly fine, no problems whatsoever (SubRip; I don't watch anime so I don't have anything with ASS subtitles, and no rips of anything with bitmap-based subtitles). Even the little things, like being able to use your own fonts for SubRip/non-ASS subtitles, and the support for having data shunted over SMB (with the Jellyfin for Kodi plugin) are plusses for me.

When it comes to choosing what you want to watch, I do find it slightly clunky there (custom skins are a rabbit hole I don't wish to go down)  - the official Android TV app looks much cleaner and better organised to me. Getting Kodi working the way I wanted it to was a little time-consuming as someone new to it.

Quote:The third-party, mpv-based Android Jellyfin client, Findroid, added an Android TV-specific interface, which looks great. It wasn't ready to use on Android TV when I tried it a few months ago (and, in all fairness, it wasn't described as being so) but I'm kinda looking in that direction for something that "just works" in the future.

(2024-03-08, 06:27 PM)abpjf Wrote: I offload all playback ("Play With" / "Play Using" - I don't recall off the top of my head) to an external player. Generally either VLC or MVP. Haven't run into anything that won't play properly (subs, codecs, etc).

(2024-03-19, 03:36 AM)baratazana Wrote: I used a kodi server on a RPi for quite some time in the past. I have to confess however, that I don't understand how Kodi fits in with a Jellyfin player. So at that point I'm supposing you don't use the JF app, but the Kodi app that via some plugin can talk to the JF server. Is that correct?